Archive for the 'Islamist' Tag Under 'Letters To The Editor' Category

In this Sunday Jan. 6, 2013 file image released by the Egyptian Presidency, President Mohammed Morsi, center, meets with his cabinet including 10 new ministers after their swearing in at the presidential palace in Cairo, Egypt. As Egypt begins the latest round of talks with the International Monetary Fund for a $4.8 billion loan, the government says it will boost international confidence in its economy. However, critics question whether the president's Muslim Brotherhood group has the ability to carry out unpopular austerity measures ahead of crucial parliamentary elections that will take place in the coming months. (AP Photo/Egyptian Presidency, File)

The film's point that some prominent American Islamist leaders with Muslim Brotherhood-sympathies feign support for American ideals while simultaneously working to advance an Islamist agenda was affirmed last month by an Egyptian writer in a piece for the Egyptian news-magazine Rose El-Youssef. The article, “A man and 6 of the Brotherhood in the White House,” found in a translation on the Investigative Project on Terrorism website, named six Muslim Brotherhood operatives with high-level political access in the United States. Investor's Business Daily has investigated the Rose El-Youssef article ["Egyptian Press Confirms Washington Infiltrated by Islamists," Jan. 9 ] and has profiled four of the six -- Mohamed Elibiary (Homeland Security adviser), Rashad Hussain (Obama's special envoy to the Muslim world), Arif Alikhan (former Assistant Homeland Security secretary), and Imam Mohamed Magid (Homeland Security adviser) – as at least coming “under scrutiny” according to ex-FBI agents.

It is simply a matter of pressing important questions when Islamic leaders' cultivated public images do not comport with their anti-American conduct. In a recent Wall Street Journal article, “A Nasty Neologism [Jan. 9],” former terrorism-finance analyst Jonathan Schanzer calls “Islamophobia” a “pejorative neologism designed to warn people away from criticizing any aspect of Islam” and he challenges those who would use this excuse to avoid critically needed cultural debates. He makes the powerful point that reform-minded Muslims will suffer most if America continues to allow “dogmatism [to] chill the crucial conversations that need to take place about Islamism here in the West.”

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